SOCIETY | EQUALITY | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Celebrating Women’s Day Is To Build A Better Future With Awe And Love.
It’s time to realise that respect requires proper responses, not just lovely celebration days.
International Women’s Day is on March 8. It has long roots in the industrial era’s fights for civil rights, equality and peace.
The socialists and communists first recognised it. The socialist countries had Women’s Day as a celebration and public holiday dating back to the Soviet Union in 1917 until United Nations General Assembly in 1977 proclaimed March 8 as an official UN holiday for women’s rights and peace.
It has become part of modern society’s way of recognising, respecting and reviewing the role of women.
In this article, I pay my debt of gratitude to women from a very subjective experience.
My mother was 17 when she waved to the soldiers who went to war in 1939.
The train was full of soldiers. The mobilisation was in full swing, and the tiny nation was holding its breath.
Slowly the train moved forward. The smoke and steam rose into the steel-grey sky. The crowd…
